That's bringing 1981 right up tp the present. Jon "got it" exactly. A pleasure.

(Walden; arr. Sharbaugh)
Jon Lock [ https://soundcloud.com/jon-lock-5 ]: bass guitar and guitar
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synthesizers, and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. 1981 to July 17, 2021.
Remixed and Remastered ca. May 24, 2023.
sm50exp [2023 REMIX + REMASTER] sm1 [em 02] [24WAV].

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"How 'bout Us" [2023 REMIX + REMASTER] -+- Michael Ash Sharbaugh (feat. Jon Lock)

New Start (2025) Remastered

What I Let You Become

I-Berliner Ensemble

uwaga

This song is a new one written this year and it's about how we've all become Broken Mirrors in some way. All of us, we were a loving people, not a cruel people, we were a caring people, not a hateful people, we were a hard working and strong people but also a very fragile people and I feel we've become a little bit more shattered in recent years. Our beliefs and hopes have diminished somewhat and this song reflects that broken mirror in us all. It's harder and harder to stay positive in this crazy hateful world today. I sang this one since Charlie was not available. I think the mix was too loud but I'm having problems with my computer and couldn't adjust the sound in my film editor like I usually do. 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/CUpzZLL-xJc

I worked hard on the video and tried to follow the lyrics as close as possible. It will drop on August 1st on YouTube. It's about our lack of empathy as of late and this constant hatred for other people that I now sense in this great country of ours!.  So I asked myself, how did we get here? When a country starts depriving its citizens of basic needs like healthcare and not helping our senior citizens and ignoring the less fortunate among us and stop assistance for veterans (like me) that risked our lives for this country, then we're on a road to destruction and our government has failed us.  All I can do is write songs, so songs I shall write. I still believe in love, love is always the answer!  Take care & God bless!🙏😎✌🏼

“BROKEN MIRRORS"

WE LIVE INSIDE OUR CASTLES,
WE HIDE BEHIND OUR WALLS,
WARM AND SECURE, NEVER ENDURE,  
HARDSHIPS THAT BEFALL,             
THE CRESTFALLEN AMONG US,
THE ONES THAT WE IGNORE,      

PRETEND THEY DON’T EXIST,
PERHAPS THEY’LL MELT AWAY, 
THEY’LL DISAPPEAR, ALONG WITH FEARS, 
WE MAY BE THEM ONE DAY,
THEY REALLY NEVER MATTERED,
THE WRETCHED WE DEPLORE, 

BROKEN MIRRORS, BROKEN MINDS,
SOMETIMES WE CHOOSE TO BE BLIND,
CONVINCE OURSELVES, WE’RE MILES ABOVE,  
THOSE THAT BEG AND CRAWL,
 BROKEN MIRROR ALWAYS REFLECT, 
 WHAT’S BROKEN IN US ALL,

MAN IS A STRANGE CREATURE,
SO CRUEL BUT YET SO KIND, 
OUR TAPESTRY IS OUR ARTISTRY,
OUR HEART SOMETIMES SUBLIME,    
YET SOME HAVE A DARKER SIDE,
THEY LURK BEHIND SATAN'S DOOR,  

     BROKEN MIRRORS, BROKEN MINDS,
     SOMETIMES WE CHOOSE TO BE BLIND,
     CONVINCE OURSELVES, WE’RE MILES ABOVE,  
     THOSE THAT BEG AND CRAWL,
     BROKEN MIRROR ALWAYS REFLECT, 
     WHAT’S BROKEN IN US ALL.

 BY JIM VALDES © 2025

"BROKEN MIRRORS" (Video - https://youtu.be/CUpzZLL-xJc)

Update: Additional lead guitar added and vox developed a bit and lowered the intensity a good bit

Our differences. It's fairly ironic we have so many differences when we are all genetically almost identical. Yet we have amazing differences making every single human being unique.

Here's to celebrating each others differences as we are losing lessons from each other all the time by closing out other points of view. Evolution of intelligent beings says we all meet in the middle and move forward. From that foundation indifference disappears and we all learn from each-other. Any healthy human being at any stage of their lives can say Eureka and discover something new... It's only belief and generally forced belief is why it doesn't happen more regularly because people don't believe in themselves enough. It is true though that we are all an Archimedes if we want to be... No exceptions


Our Differences

How's that creed?
I kind of care...
No matter choice,
We breathe same air
Good Ali's, Buddhists, Christians, Jews
We all want farms and similar food

I'm agnostic
Freeman of truth
To me thats best future for my youth
Spirited eyes are eight billion times two
My senses can't sense what soul brings you

Our differences divide
They make us hide
The difference is wide
Like a lost lesson guide

Our differences divide
They make us hide
The difference is wide
Like a lost lesson guide

All eyes have some answer
Their point of view unique free lancer
We're probably both a little wrong
We'll never know with max divide turned on

The center ground is where we win
Only there our truth can see both grin
Laugh like Buddha or cry like Jesus
Mohammad Ali says love just needed

Our difference is new
Indifference is lies
Should we mute opponent proofs?
Or understand their cries

Our differences divide
They make us hide
The difference is wide
Like a lost lesson guide





52 BPM - 432Hz A & down 1 semitone to Eb...
Musically there is great power to find in emphasis stabs regularly in the second half. We should probably look for a key change too or at least an inversion to take the monotony out of the instruments...

➕Our Differences➖

Sketch no. 8; mindful

I don't know who I am
I don't know where I am
It's one AM and I want you
I don't know what I am
I don't know if I am
It's one AM and I want you
You're the arms that don't want me
You're the eyes that haunt me
You were taken from me in my infancy
Now I want you back
I want you back
I don't know a thing about
I'm filled with doubt
It's one AM and I want you
Between heaven and hell
I don't know where you dwell
It's one AM and I want you
Why do you why do you why do you why do you torment me
What did I ever do to you
What do you what do you what do you what do you want from me
Why won't you let me be, let me be
I'm walking a dangerous street
Unfamiliar to me
It's one AM and I want you
I can hear your laughter
I'll never have you
It's one AM and I want you
Like this...
I don't know who I am
I don't know where I am
But it's one AM and I want you
I don't know what I am
I don't know if I am
It's one AM and I want you
It's one AM and I want you

One AM

Fryd - sax, Kacper - trumpet, Adam - drums.

"The Warsaw Oracle Speaks in Dissonance"

DNA

A twisted ladder
Double helix
Evolving code
Nucleotides kneaded
Invoke real prayer
Nurtured parent
Esoteric be aberrant

Great combinations
Universal bio
A clue in cells
Next new eye glow
Insidious to human view
Next history guess
Evolve our clue

Cryptic code
You spiral calculus
Twisting time
Organ rapturous
Scene is sold
Inject that real
Nile polymer
Effect our steel

Thor in there
Harmoia too
Young live love
Meet God like you
Inception of true spirit
Nether region of our mind
Evolve as DNA we find

DNA 🧬 (with a writing tip 🫡)

POP | SPACEROCK | VAPORTRAP | TRIP-HOP
AMBIENT | EXPERIMENTAL

the PERSON, the SOUND : Since 1985, Philadelphia-born Michael has composed and released hundreds of audio recordings, and published dozens of [erotic] poems.

His 'sonic-sojourn' began suddenly when he was just a teen -- feet splashing rhythmically through puddles leftover by a seaside rainstorm. Having just parted ways with the then-love-of-his-life, Michael composed his first ballad [and first song] ever -- "Tina." He rushed to his beach-side home to record his visceral 'awakening' on a tiny micro-cassette recorder, and vowed -- from that day on -- to create art for the rest of his life.

He began zealously amassing used music equipment, and had built a modest home recording studio by age seventeen, all the while crafting simple pop, ambient, and experimental works that HE had wanted to listen to -- that HE had wanted to hear, affectionately emulating the works of his then-idols, Duran Duran and Brian Eno.

Now, decades later, he has relocated to a small village outside Atlanta, Georgia, and continues to voraciously attend to his dream as a young, heartbroken boy -- to create and release music that he, himself, wants to hear.

Although no longer sequestered to pop and ambient musics, Michael's signature sound has merged the two, having integrated the R&B, hiphop, and psychedelia he has grown to love as a older gent -- having absorbed the edgy rhythms and dreamy soul of the southern United States (Atlanta and Miami).

Michael still puts forth ample amounts af ambient musics, but his recent 'sound' hovers elsewhere -- somewhere amidst the genres of vaportrap, spacerock, and trip-hop.

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the INFLUENCES : Duran Duran, The Weeknd, Blondie, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol + Steve Stevens, Stone Temple Pilots, Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie & The Banshees, This Mortal Coil, Air, Naked Eyes, Tears for Fears, Alice in Chains, John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, The Chameleons [UK], Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins, ABBA, The Bee Gees, Claude Debussy, Frederick Chopin, Guillaume de Machaut, Early Music, Renaissance music, Baroque music, and Joe Meek.

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#duranduran #theweeknd #blondie #depechemode #billyidol #stevestevens #deadcandance #siouxsieandthebanshees #air #tearsforfears #johnbarry #lesliebricusse #claudedebussy #mauriceravel #frederickchopin #eriksatie #brianeno #thecocteautwins #abba #beegees #joemeek #chameleons #octoberproject #patbenatar #haroldbudd #lindseybuckingham #nakedeyes #aha #ceefarrow #omd #thismortalcoil #stonetemplepilots #aliceinchains #baroque #renaissance #earlymusic #theweeknd #skeler

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